The Atlantic's CityLab blog reports on Tod Machover's two new city symphony projects, in Miami and Philadelphia. You can read it here: Turning Street Noise Into a City Symphony. “Like so many things in our culture, there's a growing gap between experts and ordinary people, and I thought music is such a great laboratory to show …
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Composer Tod Machover's ground-breaking "city symphony" projects, which involve entire urban communities in collaborating to create sonic portraits of their cities, is making its next stop in Miami. Machover has created city symphonies in Toronto, Edinburgh, Perth, Lucerne, and Detroit, but he encourages other artists to take hold of the idea and spread it to more communities. …
For your listening pleasure, here's an excellent version of the "Symphony in D" recording. And here's a new press release just out about the symphony and Tod Machover's "Composer of the Year" award. "Imagination is the strongest tool we have. The reason that we make music is of course to reach our audiences, but also …
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Here's a 5-minute audio clip just released from the BBC World Service that presents the highlights from the full 12-minute interview about SYMPHONY IN D - recently premiered with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra - that was broadcast last weekend. Good way to hear a discussion about (and sounds from) the project without scrolling through a …
Tod Machover's SYMPHONY FOR LUCERNE was aired 10 days ago on WQXR radio in New York. You can hear it here (and also hear how very different it is from SYMPHONY IN D for Detroit), as well as listen to an excellent interview with Jeff Spurgeon where he and Tod discuss Lucerne, its symphony, alpenhorns, cowbells, …
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Terrific article in today's Detroit Free Press by Mark Stryker. On his Facebook page, Tod Machover comments: "Stryker paints the background for the project beautifully, and describes the paradoxical nature of this "ephemeral" work - that tries to capture this moment in Detroit's history with a not-likely-to-repeat cast of characters - with the simultaneous goal …
New York Times reporter Zachary Woolfe shadowed Tod Machover on a recent visit to Detroit and published his story in today's paper: Detroit Symphony Tackles an Adventurous Premiere. The story does an excellent job of depicting the arduous process of building relationships with diverse communities within the city and developing collaborations that will be integrated into …
Opera News critic David J. Baker found much to praise in the DVD of the Dallas Opera's simulcast production of Death and the Powers, which he named a "Critic's Choice" selection: ...Machover’s range is impressive, starting with the beeps and blips of Nicholas’s manic gadgetry, which inspire antic brilliance from tenor Hal Cazalet. Evvy’s operatically …
Musical America has named Tod Machover its 2016 Composer of the Year. Read more here.
The Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra with Matthias Pintscher Terrific review of the Lucerne Festival's "Day for Pierre Boulez" celebration in the Financial Times. Tod Machover's Re-Structures for two pianos and electronics received its world premiere and was praised as "lush and playful." Seldom have all aspects of the Lucerne Festival, from its educational initiatives to its …
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